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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Well, I guess those Lakefront progressives must really want real Venezuelan food.
The Democratic Party plan is working perfectly- for their selfish goals.
Biden’s Boarder Policy will go down in history as the single most destructive event in US history. It damages every aspect of our citizens lives…our economy, our government, our safety, our healthcare system, our public education, etc. The awful thing is, the people responsible for this boarder invasion think its a good thing and should continue. I see no value. All I can see is down-side.
There’s going to be a very loud and vocal anti-immigrant wave when Trump is elected. If his immigration Czar Miller gets his old job back, it’s going to be unlike anything we’ve seen in 100 years. We’re going to arrest and imprison sanctuary mayors for violating federal laws. A couple of high profile arrests of low-lifes like Brandon Johnson or Gov. Pritzer, being charged a Trump friendly Western District of Texas, and the sanctuary movement will melt away practically overnight. People like me will feel emboldened to tell immigrants to pack up and go home, and the feds won’t prosecute… Read more »
Hopefully. To achieve it will take a lot of pressure against the entrenched commies, media, bureaucrats and useful idiots.
Our commies might whine but they will crumble. Commies of the past tended to be battle hardened tough guys. Our commies are weak, come much soy, don’t know how to operate guns.
CAN’T WAIT…….HOPE THE ELECTION GOES WELL!!
You mean Ebonics isn’t in the core curriculum of CPS?
I don’t see how the illegal kids entering CPS would cost more considering that total enrollment is down 10’s of thousands of students over the last decade. Meanwhile not many if any school personnel have been laid off with declining enrollment. Look at the underutilized schools with only 35 students for example. Plenty room for more kids. More kids should not cost more but the per person student expenditures should go down without the budget going up. But I am talking about CPS so the cost will go up.
The migrant children had very little education their home countries and are several grades behind, if they had any education at all. One neighbor of mine, a teacher in the suburbs, tells me that the challenges of teaching them are impossible. For example, they barely understand the metric system, so they come here and have to learn the imperial system. Except the imperial system relies a lot on fractions…(1/4 inch, etc) and these kids, jr high and high school aged, they’ve never been taught fractions. They don’t understand fractions. So imagine having an 9th grade high schooll class trying to… Read more »